According to some of the managers, few days after the roll out of the Free SHS policy has reduced their admission intake drastically.

A report put up by Citi News in indicates that some schools in the Ashante regional capital-Kumasi are recording fewer admission for the first year students as compared to past academic year.

A visit by Citi News to Mighty royal Senior High School, a notable private school in Kumasi, showed that it has recorded only a handful of first year students days after re-opening.

Mohammed Nurudeen, the head teacher of the school told Citi FM in an interview that, though the Free SHS policy is a laudable idea, it’s implication will gravely hurt many private schools across the country since private schools were not considered before implementation.

“I am saying this because a government which has promised to revamp the private sector, in the course of rolling this programme, they should have considered the private schools; as in posting some of the students to the private school,” he said.

He added that, “if nothing at all, the government can subsidize the fees or pay and absorb all the fees because they are all Ghanaian children and we are all Ghanaians.”